Word: cap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feast that has to do with the permanent establish ment of a liberal party, if necessary, in the United States in 1940." Should such a third party, the lifelong dream of many a U. S. liberal, materialize, it would be a tall feather in the miner's cap of John Lewis. Last fortnight the long brawl between the A. F. of L. and his C. I. O. came to a head with the Federation's Executive Council demanding that C. I. O. disband within 30 days or be suspended (TIME, Aug. 17). Last week Miner Lewis did exactly...
...Food Industries this week Howard T. Greene, Wisconsin dairy manager, described a new method of packing cow's milk so that it keeps fresh much longer than usual. Instead of a paper cap in the bottle's mouth, a tight metal cap with gasket is used. Just before the cap is thrust home, live steam is introduced beneath it. This condenses in the bottle top, creating a partial vacuum. Packed in this way the milk keeps fresh for 48 hours at room temperature, six weeks in a refrigerator...
About the same time Anthony Gordon Dick, a square-jawed furniture polish salesman telephoned his office that he would have to take half a day off to act as a special constable along the line of the King's march. He put on the flat-topped cap that distinguished Britain's part-time policemen from the helmeted professionals, and took up his post part way down Constitution Hill. He did not know it, but George Andrew McMahon was standing almost behind...
...wheels and most of the gadgets of a lathe for turning out baseball bats. It is used to pull eyelets out of tennis shoes, a dial registering the force needed. A machine with a rocking arrangement stretches sheets of shoe rubber until they tear. To test the safety-toe caps of miners' boots, a cake of paraffin is put in the toe and an iron weight dropped from a height of 4 ft. on the boot tip. If the cake shows any signs of flattening, the manufacturer makes the toe cap stronger...
...still professionally appreciative of good cooking, Artist Young has his studio in the basement of his Weehawken Heights, N. J. home, gets from $5 to $48 for his etchings. For the snowscapes for which he has developed such a sensitivity, Etcher Young bundles up in woolens, leather boots, skating cap, takes along an umbrella to protect his sketching block, placidly stands in snowbanks until he is satisfied with his drawing. Etcher Young makes his own etching instruments from rattail files and dentists' drills, finest steel he can obtain...